Chapter Summaries

Chaos defeated Big Mom after Great Ivan’s explosive attack left her badly injured, then ordered a retreat with her and her three main Homies captured. Katakuri and the others received word that Cake Island had been destroyed and rushed back.

• Great Ivan’s explosions devastated Cake Island and wiped out the Charlotte Family members who were there, leaving Big Mom alive but gravely wounded.
• Big Mom attacked Chaos with her Emperor Sword, but his Almighty Push and repeated Thunder Bagua attacks overwhelmed her.
• Chaos admired Big Mom’s resilience before defeating her with Inferno Flowing Cherry Blossom: Emperor’s Spear and leaving her barely conscious.
• Chaos sent Golden Warriors to carry Big Mom and her weakened Homies away, intending to claim the Soul-Soul Fruit.
• Chaos ordered a retreat as Cake Island continued to crumble, and Katakuri and the others rushed back after hearing the news.

Chaos left Gold City after learning the Navy had joined the attack on the Revolutionary Army in the Vegeta Kingdom, leaving Stussy to guard Big Mom. He arrived as the battle neared its end, restored his allies, and confronted the World Government forces, declaring that he was in a terrible mood.

• Stussy told Chaos that the Navy had mobilized in the Vegeta Kingdom, so he postponed extracting Big Mom’s Devil Fruit and gathered reinforcements.
• Chaos left Stussy in charge of Gold City and traveled to the Vegeta Kingdom with Kuma, Ivankov, Bonis, Caesar, Baccarat, and Betty.
• Sakazuki and three other Admirals arrived, then Sengoku joined the attack and targeted Dragon as the Revolutionary Army neared defeat.
• Chaos arrived aboard the Golden Flower Sea Avenue and gave life potions to Dragon, Enel, Crocodile, and the others.
• Sengoku identified Chaos as the Revolutionary Army’s mysterious Emperor, and Chaos offered the World Government a choice between ending the battle or fighting him.

The Richest Group and the Revolutionary Army turned the tide against the World Government, and Kuma gravely injured Charlose by redirecting accumulated damage into him. After Sengoku ordered a retreat, Chaos confronted Dragon over the Revolutionary Army’s hidden fighters, leaving their alliance strained but intact for now.

• Charlose charged at Chaos, but Kuma hit him with a Healing Damage Bullet that unleashed Enel, Crocodile, and the Sun King’s injuries and left Charlose gravely wounded.
• Sengoku asked Chaos whether he had destroyed Totto Land and killed Big Mom, and Chaos confirmed that he had.
• Sengoku ordered the Army and Navy to withdraw, and Chaos let them leave.
• Dragon thanked the Richest Group for its help, while Chaos confronted Koans and Veiled Night Jade about joining the Revolutionary Army.
• Dragon promised that Koans and Veiled Night Jade would never provoke the Richest Group, and Chaos left after warning him that the Revolutionary Army had grown wings.

News spread that Gaia Chaos had destroyed Totto Land and taken down Big Mom, plunging the New World into turmoil. Katakuri led the surviving Charlotte family away to seek an opportunity for revenge, while the World Government ordered an investigation into the Richest Group’s power and its ties to the Revolutionary Army.

• Newspapers reported Big Mom’s disappearance and the destruction of Totto Land, prompting pirates to vie for the vacant Emperor positions and others to fear a new wave of bloodshed.
• Katakuri and the surviving Charlotte family returned to the devastated Cake Island and searched for survivors, but found none.
• Katakuri refused to attack the Richest Group immediately and led the family away, insisting they wait for a chance to seek revenge.
• At Mary Geoise, the Five Elders and other officials reviewed footage of Gaia Chaos’s attack and suspected the Richest Group possessed a weapon comparable to an Ancient Weapon.
• The World Government ordered undercover agents to investigate Gold City and considered the Richest Group and Revolutionary Army a united threat.

Blackbeard plotted to reclaim his place among the Four Emperors, while Chaos rushed to gain Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit and prepare to eat it despite his allies’ objections. After Caesar’s surgery successfully added a Bloodline Factor to Chaos, he swallowed the fruit and awaited the result.

• Blackbeard read that Big Mom had fallen, resolved to reunite with Lafitte and the others, and planned to take revenge on Gild Tesoro.
• Chaos told his allies to wait while Caesar and Baccarat attempted to extract Big Mom’s Soul-Soul Fruit, and they succeeded after nearly an hour.
• Chaos refused Bonis’s offer to test the fruit, explained that he feared an impending war and had backup plans, then went with Caesar and Baccarat to undergo surgery.
• Wapol used the Munch-Munch Fruit to reassemble Chaos with an added Bloodline Factor, and the surgery succeeded without rejecting his original DNA.
• Baccarat channeled luck into Chaos, who swallowed the Soul-Soul Fruit despite its foul taste.

After eating the Soul-Soul Fruit, Chaos fell unconscious and found himself in a hazy soul space, where he fought and destroyed Big Mom’s remnant soul. His allies’ attempts to wake him failed until Enel shocked him with five hundred million volts, jolting him awake and triggering an Almighty Push that wrecked Level -10.

• Chaos ate the entire Soul-Soul Fruit, collapsed, and could not be awakened despite Caesar finding his bodily functions normal.
• Chaos encountered Big Mom’s remnant soul in a boundless space and realized he could gain strength by defeating her.
• Chaos battered Big Mom with repeated attacks until her soul shattered and vanished, while his own body became more solid.
• Stussy and the others tried to wake the unconscious Chaos with different powers, but nothing worked.
• Enel shocked Chaos with five hundred million volts, and Chaos woke in mortal danger and unleashed an Almighty Push.
• The blast shook the Gold City, nearly collapsed Level -10, and sent Enel and the others crashing into the golden walls.

After absorbing Big Mom's remnant soul and gaining the Soul-Soul Fruit's powers, Chaos turned Zeus and Prometheus into his servants by giving them parts of his own soul. He gave Napoleon to Baccarat and began drawing out her soul to make her its new master.

• Chaos recovered from the electricity and confirmed that absorbing Big Mom's remnant soul had awakened basic Soul-Soul Fruit abilities.
• Chaos entered Zeus's soul space, devoured Big Mom's remnant soul inside him, and made Zeus his servant while letting him keep his memories.
• Chaos repeated the process with Prometheus, strengthening him with a portion of Chaos's soul.
• Chaos gave Napoleon to Baccarat and said he would use her soul to replace Big Mom's remnant soul inside the Homie.
• Chaos drew a mass of soul mist from Baccarat as she watched without feeling discomfort.

Chaos developed his Soul-Soul Fruit powers over three months, discovering ways to manipulate souls, create Homies, and improve his potential. As the New World’s pirates competed to replace fallen Emperors, Chaos continued investigating how far his abilities could grow.

• Chaos helped Baccarat’s two soul layers absorb Big Mom’s remaining soul, and Napoleon awoke with Baccarat as his dominant personality.
• Baccarat tested Napoleon as a greatsword and combined him with Tempest Kick to unleash a slash at the level of a newly arrived Great Swordsman.
• Baccarat, Betty, Ivankov, and Caesar expressed interest in getting Homies, while Enel, Crocodile, and Archino rejected the idea.
• Three months passed as spies gathered in Gold City and pirate crews fought for the vacant Four Emperor positions; Whitebeard’s crew emerged as a frontrunner, while Blackbeard re-formed his crew and recruited defeated Great Pirates.
• Chaos found that his potential could still improve, learned to leave part of his soul inside his body while other layers moved freely, and confirmed that Haki could weaken soul powers.
• Chaos determined that Homies could grow by absorbing souls or matching elements but could not eat Devil Fruits, leaving his plans for Devil Fruit armor and multiple powers out of reach for now.

Chaos created Logia-type Homies from magma, a sandstorm, and a mountain, giving the first two to Ivankov and the earth Homie to Betty. He then led everyone to the beach to make another Homie, but the chapter ended before he revealed what it would be.

• Chaos took the group to a volcanic island, where Archino heated the magma so Chaos could use it to create a Homie.
• Chaos infused two layers of Ivankov's soul into the magma, creating Kutapa, a magma-controlling Homie that Ivankov named as his own.
• Chaos turned a sandstorm into a Homie named Set and gave it to Ivankov.
• Chaos infused two layers of Betty's soul into a mountain, creating Geb, a Homie who could control stone and soil.
• Chaos led the group to the beach to create another Homie, leaving them wondering what he planned to use the water for.

Chaos created three new Homies: Poseidon, made from seawater; Hades, made from explosive liquid and its container; and Venom, made from Caesar’s poison. The six Homies gathered around Chaos and his allies, and Archino and Enel stayed behind to strengthen Prometheus and Zeus.

• Chaos used two layers of Betty’s soul to create Poseidon, a seawater Homie that controlled the sea and suppressed Devil Fruit powers on contact.
• Chaos turned a Super Great Ivan into Hades, whose body could transform into weapons and unleash an explosion before slowly replenishing its explosive liquid.
• Caesar presented his deadly poison, and Chaos used two layers of Caesar’s soul to create the poison Homie Venom.
• Chaos listed the abilities of the six Homies and noted that Zeus and Prometheus were stronger because they contained his own soul.
• Chaos kept Archino and Enel behind to increase the heat of Prometheus’s flames and the voltage of Zeus’s lightning.

After the Richest Group's ten-day ultimatum to vacate the former Explosion Pirates' and Big Mom Pirates' territories expired, Chaos led seven representatives out of Gold City in an extravagant procession to begin the takeover. As rival forces watched, Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to withdraw from the resource-rich islands it had seized to avoid provoking Chaos.

• The Richest Group warned all forces to leave the Explosion Sea and Big Mom Sea within ten days or face a full-scale purge, but most stayed and fought over territory.
• On the eleventh day, Chaos set out from Gold City with Enel, Archino, Kuma, Betty, Ivankov, Bonis, and Caesar, while Crocodile, Stussy, and Baccarat remained behind.
• Chaos and his party traveled across the New World in a golden procession pulled by nine dragons, prompting spies and pirate crews to report that the Richest Group was acting on its threat.
• Telly told Dragon that the Golden Emperor had departed with seven representatives and asked whether the Revolutionary Army should withdraw from the islands it had taken.
• Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to withdraw so its territorial dispute with the Richest Group would not worsen.

Chaos arrived at Onigashima to destroy the Beasts Pirates, while Kaido welcomed the fight and refused his demand for compensation. Chaos overwhelmed the pirate forces with Conqueror’s Haki and the Soul-Soul Fruit, leaving Kaido and his strongest fighters to resist as souls were drawn toward him and his Homies.

• Kaido gathered the Calamities, Flying Six, Headliners, and more than a hundred thousand pirates to confront Chaos and his crew on Onigashima.
• Chaos demanded that Kaido withdraw his forces and pay one hundred billion in compensation, but Kaido challenged him to knock him down for a larger payment.
• Chaos declared that he had come to wipe out the Beasts Pirates, then unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki against Kaido and his forces.
• Chaos used the Soul-Soul Fruit to pull the souls from tens of thousands of overwhelmed pirates while Kaido’s Haki protected the remaining fighters.
• Zeus and Prometheus devoured the incoming souls alongside Chaos, as other Homies also began consuming souls for nourishment.

Chaos and the Richest Group attacked the Beasts Pirates on Onigashima, while Chaos fought Kaido in a devastating battle that ranged from the sea to a deserted island. The fight continued after Kaido transformed into a dragon, and Shakyamuni and the Goddess of the Heavens appeared to flank him.

• Kaido and his crew mistook Prometheus, Zeus, and the other Homies for Big Mom's servants before Chaos attacked Kaido with Almighty Push.
• Chaos and Kaido traded blows as the Richest Group's seven officers attacked the Beasts Pirates, prompting worldwide reports of the assault.
• Chaos and Kaido fought across the sea and a deserted island, unleashing attacks that shattered the sky and sent immense tsunamis surging outward.
• Kaido transformed into his full beast form and blasted Chaos with dragon breath, but Chaos struck back as their battle continued.
• Shakyamuni and the Goddess of the Heavens appeared beside Kaido, trapping the dragon between them.

Enel devastated King with lightning attacks, while the Sun King overwhelmed Queen and Jack with heat and magma. Black Maria, Sasaki, and Fuz struggled against Bartholomew Kuma, whose compressed-air paw attack had already injured them.

• Enel struck King with Divine Punishment and Divine Prison, then blasted him with Thunder God Beam, leaving him crippled and badly wounded.
• King fled into the sky to use hit-and-run tactics, and Enel pursued him at lightning speed.
• The Sun King attacked Queen and Jack with intense heat and Cruel Sun, forcing the injured pair to retreat.
• Black Maria, Sasaki, and Fuz fought Bartholomew Kuma and prepared to face his shrinking compressed-air paw after his earlier attack had hurt them.

Betty used her empowered Homies, Poseidon and Gueb, to overwhelm Kaido’s Headliners, while Ivankov fought Ulti, Page One, and Yulia with several powerful Homies of her own. The chapter left Ivankov attacking Page One after blasting Ulti away.

• Betty empowered Poseidon and Gueb, and Poseidon’s seawater attack incapacitated three Headliners by stripping away their Devil Fruit powers.
• Betty summoned Gueb as a hundred-meter stone giant, then enlarged Poseidon into a Sea God to confront the remaining seven Headliners.
• Ulti, Page One, and Yulia struggled against Ivankov, who wielded the magma Homie Kutapa and the sandstorm Homie Set.
• Ivankov unleashed Set’s massive sandstorm, separating Yulia from Ulti and Page One.
• Ulti and Page One attacked Ivankov together, but Ivankov struck Ulti with Super Death Glare and evaded Page One’s bite.
• Ivankov surrounded Page One with afterimages and launched a barrage of Armament Haki Finger Pistols.

Ivankov and Kutapa joined the fight against the Beasts Pirates, while Daz Bonis overwhelmed ten Headliners with his swordsmanship. The chapter ended as Bonis brought a colossal pillar of sword energy down on the fleeing Headliners.

• Ivankov struck Page One and Ulti, then dodged Ulti's headbutt and punched her away.
• Page One carried the injured Ulti from Ivankov, avoiding a massive slash that carved an abyss across the land.
• Daz Bonis faced ten Headliners and erased the surrounding hills with a single flat attack.
• Bonis killed two Headliners with a swift kick before raising a towering pillar of sword energy.
• The remaining eight Headliners scattered as Bonis's pillar crashed down and the ground began to split.

Caesar and the Richest Group’s executives overwhelmed the Beasts Pirates, while Chaos drove Kaido toward Whitebeard’s territory. Their battle headed for Falling Star Island, where Whitebeard might intervene, and the Marines considered whether to act.

• Caesar used poison rain, Void World, and Reaper Rope to rout the pirates and keep the thirteen Headliners at bay.
• Chaos fought Kaido, overpowering him in giant forms and then striking him with a Serious Punch and Super Thunder Bagua.
• Kaido retreated toward Falling Star Island as their battle caused tsunamis that swept pirate crews into the sea.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Chaos and Kaido were approaching Whitebeard’s base, raising the prospect of a three-way battle.
• Sengoku considered mobilizing the Marines, but Tsuru urged him to wait a little longer.

Gild Tesoro fought Whitebeard on Falling Star Island while the Whitebeard Pirates watched from a distance. After learning that Whitebeard could be in danger, Shanks decided to take the Red-Haired Pirates to the island to protect the New World's balance.

• Whitebeard and Gild Tesoro exchanged devastating blows, split the sky, and cracked Falling Star Island as Marco and the others watched.
• Shanks received Beckman's report that Gild Tesoro and Kaido had appeared on Falling Star Island and that Gild Tesoro was fighting Whitebeard.
• Shanks said Whitebeard could not die and decided the Red-Haired Pirates would intervene, despite the risk of worsening relations with the Richest Group.
• Beckman ordered the Red Force to sail at full speed toward Falling Star Island as powers across the world watched the battle.

Chaos and Whitebeard fought an evenly matched battle of overwhelming physical power, tearing apart Starfall Island as they traded blows. With Prometheus and Zeus adding their fire and lightning to Chaos’s strength, both fighters powered up and continued their catastrophic clash in the sky.

• Chaos and Whitebeard exchanged punches and knees, each matching the other's strength and sending shockwaves across Starfall Island.
• Chaos drove Whitebeard into a deep abyss and answered his Quake attack with a Serious Punch, but Whitebeard struck Chaos in the abdomen and Chaos countered with a Serious Uppercut.
• The two men pursued and attacked each other through the collapsing abyss, landing blows and narrowly avoiding one another's strikes.
• Whitebeard recognized Prometheus and Zeus in Chaos's flames, and Chaos revealed the two Homies before they vanished back into his power.
• Whitebeard enlarged his frame as Chaos prepared to fight on, and their renewed clash sent them skyward while the island and surrounding seas broke apart.

Chaos and Whitebeard fought across islands and sea, escalating their battle with devastating attacks that left Falling Star Island and the surrounding area in ruins. Chaos unleashed his newly developed ultimate move, but both fighters survived the resulting catastrophe and continued clashing.

• Chaos and Whitebeard exchanged blows that shattered Falling Star Island and devastated the surrounding islands and sea.
• Chaos battered Whitebeard with Inferno Meteor: Emperor's Spear, but Whitebeard answered with a crushing punch that badly injured Chaos.
• Marco and the others watched from afar as Chaos recovered and prepared a massive attack using Prometheus and Zeus.
• Chaos unleashed Taiyi: Emperor's Wrath, and Whitebeard countered with Double Kong Shock, creating a colossal explosion and a bottomless sinkhole.
• Chaos and Whitebeard continued fighting through the smoke, with Chaos regenerating his shattered arm and Whitebeard bleeding heavily.
• Chaos launched another Serious Kick: Comet at Whitebeard.